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Help other people, make art and listen to "Skating Polly"...
That is how you interpret my personal opinion, I never said if things are wrong today, I just stated that today's new music is utter crap in my opinion. There is a lot of good music played by nowadays musicians.
I have no problem with you disagreeing with my personal opinion, but I do have a problem with you telling that I imply other things than I am telling.
>"this is utter crap", I never said that, there is a difference between "I think" and "This is", Don't twist my words, you are being dishonest in this conversation for doing that.
They are political constructs to lock people out instead of integrating people. Individuals that force these COCs on groups of people want a political instrument to gain power over others.
COCs are also used often to try and contain perceived powergrabs.
In your case, with your gripes over multi platform, you have the right to complain about that, I or others have the right to either ignore you or debate you over it, waving a COC is overkill and shows indeed fear of you trying to convince members of that community of your point.
Things like language, unless direct threats of violence, should not be an argument to exclude people from debate.
This is my opinion, b.t.w. I have none whatsoever connection with the community where this issue is happening.
It is however a reason why I hardly join discussions of any kind on most platforms on the internet.
For you the question is: "Do I really want to be around these people?"
This is a philosofical question, not trolling. Given that most if not all of our modern problems stem from overpopulation, do we really need to save all people from bad things happening to them?
Of course the sites in question are allowed to try and raise money from me, and I feel I am allowed to try to dodge this.
More important however, I feel that these serious news sites with their current behavior are contributing to the fake news proliferation as people keep on reading news but since they cannot read serious news sites they are forced to read facebook's and other crappy sources their gossipy, manipulative and spammy propaganda.
I contribute money to The Guardian because of this, they vowed to keep their serious news site open and reward them a contribution for it, I hope more people will for the same reason.
On one hand is art really art without the bullshit story of the maker that defines the art? Sometimes we really want the creator to shut up making bullshit stories and just enjoy what has been made.
On the other hand, is a AI algo really a form of being creative? Nature is an algo that creates things.
Do things have to be art to appreciate their beauty? Is art about beauty? Is art about statements?
etc. etc.
Probably all answers are personal really.
Besides, The main function of the Linux world is developing computational solutions, not bring people desktops for money.
Linux is used to make money much different than that, ask the users of supercomputers, or people that develop communication systems.
As far as I know all green does this, probably planting grass on baren land will cause as much progres as trees would.
I think the most important job for us humans is to create alternatives for growing crops so that we can stop depleting our top soils and stop injecting fertilizers and poisons and give these top soils back to the green stuff that will cool down the planet a bit.
I have no problems with encrypted files, but I am not waiting for access problems of my own stuff.
systemd-homed is a solution for NSA and secret companies, not for someone like me who has no problem with how things function today.
But I am afraid there is no opt out but only filosophy enforcement.
If one group their speech should be put under a enlarging glass then it's politicians in general as they are the ones that can cause the most dangerous situations in society with their speech.
Besides, Bolsonaro should be bound to a tree and flogged hard the same number of times a tree fell under his presidency.